[ltp] Booting from a portable drive bay?

[Richard Neill]

>> If anyone has any other ideas, it would be _hugely_ appreciated.
>> Especially annoying is the fact that I am even using an
>> external drive from IBM..
>>
>> I will probably have to fall back to installing on another box and
>> moving the hdd after that. Ugly as the only other laptop with
>> built-in CD-ROM has a SATA connector.
>>

Might I suggest you try doing a network install?

Basically, on your desktop, you mount the install CD via loopback, then 
serve it up to the target machine via PXE/TFTP.  This works on all the X 
series thinkpads from at least X20 onwards.

http://thinkwiki.org/wiki/Installation_on_ThinkPads_without_CD-ROM_drive

(but check if your distro has a more specific howto)

Regards,

Richard